to a tax cut for the rich partially financed by the stealth tax increase on the middle class and i don't think any democrat would go for that conceptually. but he got the ball halfway down the field. i think it would be fascinating both substantively and political for democrats to take him up on the offer and just also see what republicans do in response. the speaker of the house isn't wild about this. mitch mcconnell isn't wild about this. but if democrats called their bluff and said we want to use this republican tax plan as a starting point, that could completely change the nature of the political discussions that we've been having in washington for the last, what, six months now. >> i believe speaker boehner's exact quote about the details of the plan were blah blah blah. so where does that leave us on this politically? is there an opportunity for democrats to pick this up and try to sort of split the republican caucus, work with dave camp and push this through, or with mcconnell and boehner both sort of saying they're not that interested in this, is there not much of an opportunity